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Artefacts of animal bone and charcoal recently found at the Ganga Maya cave site in the WA's Pilbara region and analysed through carbon-dating techniques
indicate use of the cave may date from more than 45,000 years ago.
These early dates make the site a contender for one of a few of the earliest known for people in Australia.
There are more caves in the area yet to be explored by archaeologists.

"Huge genetic diversity among Papuan New Guinean peoples revealed"
"This is the first large-scale study of genetic diversity and population history in Papua New Guinea. Our study revealed that the genetic differences between groups of people there are generally very strong, often much stronger even than between major populations within all of Europe or all of East Asia."

"Archaeologists have confirmed ancient human remains, potentially up to 6,000 years old, are interred in burial mounds at a site long regarded as culturally significant by the Tjungundji people of western Cape York."